7 JANUARY 1944, page 13

Books Of The Day

Our Earliest Poetry THE early death of Gavin Bone last year was a real loss to scholar- ship and in particular to St. John's College; Oxford, of which he was Fellow and Tutor.......

The World We Mean To Make : And The Part

of Education in Making It. By Maxwell Garnett. (Faber and Faber. los. 6d.) An Optimists' World THE buoyant optimism of Dr., Maxwell Garnett's title is fully sustained in his......